When you lose your vision, you lose contact with things. When you lose your hearing, you lose contact with people.
Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.
Better to be blind and see with your heart, than to have two good eyes and see nothing.
The bulk of the world’s knowledge is an imaginary construction.
This world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks.
He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.
Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.
Certainly it is one of our sweetest experiences that when we are touched by some noble affection or pure joy, we remember the dead most tenderly, and feel more powerfully drawn to them.
When indeed shall we learn that we are all related one to the other, that we are all members of one body?
A simple, childlike faith in a Divine Friend solves all the problems that come to us by land or sea.
Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people.
Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.
Once it was necessary that the people should multiply and be fruitful if the race was to survive. But now to preserve the race it is necessary that people hold back the power of propagation.
The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field. I cannot reap a kernel of the good.
The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the speed of automobiles or the efficiency of air transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people.
The attempt to suppress an idea has always and everywhere proved a failure.
Things must be felt with the heart.
To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.
Every one of us is blind and deaf until our eyes are opened to our fellowmen, until our ears hear the voice of humanity.
The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, – the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren and their rights of conscience.